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A colleague has to run a report that will regularly pull in data from other
sources and place it into an Excel spreadsheet. Can anyone give us
instructions for setting up an "update" macro in the spreadsheet so that it
will refresh the data automatically when it is opened?
(We could set it up so that the users press an "update data" button after
they open the spreadsheet, but if it can be set to do it automatically, that
would be much cleaner and reduce the error margin.)
